Tag: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Through Gritted Teeth

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In February this year we had some strange weather in the Upper Rhine Valley. Strong winds blew sands from the Sahara, from as far away Morocco, Algeria, Mauretania and Mali all the way to Switzerland, France and the south of Germany. It happens every few years.

As interesting as the effect was, I prefer not to breathe in my sand.

How about drinking it?

A few days ago somebody posted a photo of sand in a bottle and I commented on it and now I cant find anymore. Anyway – this is the bottle that I have, a lot less artistic. I filled this bottle myself 50 years ago with sands from Le sentier des ocres de Roussilon in the Luberon. It’s an old ocher pigment quarry in the South of France which was then open to anybody and one could just collect sand. Nowadays, there are fixed walkways and taking sands is strictly forbidden (and quite rightly so).

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand or Dirt

Archways in Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße

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There are more than 20 towns and villages called Neustadt in Germany, meaning “new town”, so they get an affix to distinguish one from the other. Neustadt an der Weinstraße is situated on the German Wine Road, a route traversing the wine region of the Palatinate region in the southwest of Germany. It is surrounded by vineyards to all sides, and there are traditional wineries and wine-growers on every street and on every corner. These are traditionally homesteads in the middle of the village, several houses and buildings surrounding a courtyard. They usually have a large gate as the main entrance to let tractors and in former times horse-drawn carriages in.

Protestantisches Dekanat Neustadt an der Weinstraße

Often they have a smaller door set in the larger gate for everyday access. When the building purpose is changed the arches are often kept because of the structure of the wall as well as for looks.

In this case the arch was filled in except for a door and a window.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Wavy or Arches